Building Sustainable Communities: Civil Society Response in South Asia

Momen, Md. Nurul; Baikady, Rajendra; Sheng Li, Cheng; Basavaraj, M.

The book aims to explore South Asian third sector – the nonprofit organizations as provider of social services. The book defines social welfare and describe its relationship to social service programmes and individual well-being; understands the social policy development from the problem identification to policy implementation; describes the range of organization of social service agencies that are responsible for providing social welfare programmes; explores the various roles that professional and non- professional helpers provide in the delivery of social welfare and their influence in promoting change in policy development; and understands the umbrella concept of Child welfare, welfare of people with disability and elderly welfare in welfare policy.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-11-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811523922

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2393-9

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 850